In 1989 a student of mine then known as V. Padmavathy completed a dissertation on English barmaids. More recently she also has done some preliminary research on the Indian expatriate community in North America. I want to provide her this introduction because (1) her name has changed to Padma Manian and (2) she has moved from a teaching job at University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse to live in the San Francisco area. Perhaps some subscribers may be interested in an alcohol researcher who knows Tamil and Hindi (as well as late Victorian and Edwardian England). David Fahey (Miami Univ.) [log in to unmask]